Cellular application of sheet insulation



Jan. 20. 1925.

V. JAKOB CELLULAR APPLICATION OF SHEET'INSULATION Filed July 16, 1923 ZIM, um l T01: ,a/05,

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UNITED STATES VICTOR JAKOB, OF RACINE, WISCONSIN.

CELLULAR APPLICATION OF SHEET INSULATION.

Application filed July 16, 41923. Serial No. 651,896.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR JAKOB, a citizen of Germany, and resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of IVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cellular Application of Sheet Insulations; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in insulation materials and the like, particularly to that type adapted to be used in the construction of buildings to provide proper means for excluding drafts and the transmission of heat and cold.

The object of my invention is to provide a material so formed that the saine may be secured within the walls, floors, partitions and the like in such a manner as to provide air spaces therein.

A further object of my invention is to provide a material of the class described having elements made integral therewith, if v so desired, so that it may be secured to the vertical studs of a wall or to the joists of a floor, the same being adapted to form between adjacent members a plurality of air spaces, thereby forming what is known as air chamber insulation preventing the passage through the walls of the elements.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a vertical sectional view taken through a wall of a typical frame building showing the material arranged in a manner to provide a maximum number of air spaces within a certain distance.

Figure 2 is view .showing a slightly diiferentform somewhat similar to Figure l, and

Figure 3 is a plan view showing how thev material, illustrated in `Figures 1 and 2, is cut to permit the same to befolded and attached to the wall. v

Referring to the drawings l`in detail,

wherein like reference characters denote' corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 1 designates, in general thc usual wall structure of a typical frame building, the same having the vertical arranged studding 2, erected upon asill not shown, and having secured to one vface thereof the usual clapboarding and sheating 3 and 4L between which is placed a layer of tar paper 5. The opposite faceof the stud.

ding 2 has secured thereto the lathing or interior wall 6.

I will now explain the structure of the insulating material which is adapted to be placed between the inner and outer faces of thevwall described above, which has merely been done so for a purpose of illustration. It will be understood that the same is not only applicable to a wall but may be placed between the floors, roofs, partitions and the like of buildings.

The material from which I form my improved insulation is unimportant, provided it has suiicient rigidity to besecured in its proper place and at the same time preventing the passage of the elements therethrough. The material used may be paper, tarred paper, felt-board or paper saturated with asphalt and it is preferably desired to have the same out in strips of various widths.

As disclosed inthe drawings I have provide-d a strip of material 7 cut a proper width and having formed at its edges spaced flanges 8', which `are folded at right angles to the body 7 of the material to form means whereby the same may be secured in its proper lace. If the material posesses sulicient bo y the same is secured in place by merely driving tacks or the like through the flanges, but in oase it does not have sufficient body cleats are -.put over the flanges and nailed to the studs or joists. By this arrangement, it will be noted that the material may be secured in any desired manner, but it is the purpose of my invention to secure the saine within a wall or the like in a. zig-Zag manner, thus providing a plurality of air spaces within the walls.

As shown in the modified form of my invention, Figure 2 I have shown the material as being of the saine character and structure as that, previously referred to with the eX-4 ception that it will be noted that the spaces 9 between the flanges 8 are of a substantial length, thus permitting the material to be folded back upon itself to provide an overlapping of the air spaces. As disclosed 'Figure 2 I have shown how this overlapping feature may be further carried out to `\increase the number 'of air spaces within a wall.

understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing froml the spirit or sacricing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A material of the class described adapted l to be arranged in a zig-zag manner between adjacent faces of the wall suporting means, adjacent flanges being space mit the folding of said material upon itself at its angle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin. i

A VICTOR JAKoB.

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